Starting Out
When the going was good for a fledgling writer.
Published!
The official publication day came and went. I felt weirdly out of it, waiting for something I had anticipated for half my life and worked toward unremittingly.
The Art of Prediction and the Arc of the Moral Universe
Plausible forecasts may help us avert the worst political calamities.
Cormac McCarthy’s Poetics of Being
Cormac McCarthy is provoking us more than we may realize.
Conversation Pieces
Austen’s sparing use of attributions is also a sign of her confidence in her art. She dispensed with unnecessary scaffolding.